Kailyn Toussaint

🍿 Gladiator II and Wicked both hit theaters today, ahead of the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, kicking off an important stretch at the US box office for the movie industry.

Maria Tallchief is the newest Barbie. 

📺⏸️ Subscription pausers are on the rise: A growing number of people are strategically canceling video streaming services, then re-upping at a later date.

🤖🎶 The Beatles recently released a song with the help of AI – and it’s now up for a pair of major Grammy Awards, raising questions about AI’s place within the music industry.

Eniola Shokunbi was in fifth grade when she designed an air filter device that’s able to remove cold and COVID-19 viruses from classrooms for a school project

Over 130 hamsters escaped in a plane's cargo hold. 

A staple in American households, the late Betty White will bring her smile to mailboxes next year as part of the US Postal Service's 2025 stamp collection.

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🍿💼 Hollywood shows have begun to adopt a hiring process similar to that of any traditional organization, with salary rates fixed and listed on the initial job description.

🛍️ Retail therapy is getting a rebrand. In recent years, younger Americans have increasingly started “doom spending,” or swiping their credit cards to cope with stresses.

🥦 At the end of their first date, Charles Phillips and Holly Walker stopped by an Aldi. 

The National Toy Hall of Fame has announced its 2024 inductees: My Little Pony, Transformers and Phase 10.

🎶🧠 We all tend to think the music of our youth is the best (s/o 2000s pop-punk, aka divorced dad rock) – and thanks to science, we have an idea of why that’s the case.

The incredible story of Jake Haendel.

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🏨👻 Spooky season may be over, but Americans’ interest in the paranormal certainly isn’t.

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📲 Netflix recently launched a new feature on its iOS mobile app, called Moments, that allows subscribers to instantly save and share specific bite-sized scenes from their favorite shows on social media.

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